Bell (Beier) Chen

San Francisco · founder, builder, visual thinker

I'm building the non-text AI company. While the rest of the industry wraps text boxes around model APIs, I work on visual-in / visual-out interfaces — you draw, sketch, and annotate; AI responds on the same canvas.

I ship products end-to-end — product, design, and the code — mostly by orchestrating AI coding agents. I've watched my build time per product collapse from years to weeks, and I think that curve is the whole story of the next decade.

now

• Founder & CEO, Enlighten Animation Labs
• Superpencil — an agent-native visual-thinking canvas
• Superdirector — an agentic brand-growth & video-intelligence product

before

• First founding engineer at Backlinker AI — bootstrapped to $250K ARR
• Co-founded ST World — 20K users, featured on a16z's market map
• Published image-generation research as an IEEE oral paper at 18
• B.S. Mathematics, The Ohio State University

elsewhere

• email — say hello
• company — enlightenanimation.com